I absolutely love these, great collection !

This collection should be placed in a book. Such an awe-some collection. It is very moving to view, This could happen to all of us.

AMAZING collection there - I agree with elizebeth, they should all be in a book!!!

Outstanding collection of then and now pictures.

Amazing collection, thankyou so much for the effort in making these available

what a wonderful work

uahau

Just incredible set of photos..Time goes ..and life continues ..

Wanderful. Can I steal the idea?
I will try sometning similar... thank you for sharing.

It touches you in the heart!! And the power of mankind!! but with great power comes a great responsabilty!!

Awesome set of pics
and love the fact that there was a Canadian flag on third set (6th pic) balcony

cooool :)

Merci beaucoup pour ces photos et le devoir de mémoire que l'on doit avoir sur cette guerre !
Thx a lot for this amazing set of photos :)
We have to keep in our mind this hard time of our history!

Stunning! Have you tried stitching pairs together using hugin? I did it with a few of your images and the results are fantastic. Old blended with new.

JAZDA JAZDA JAZDA JAZDA JAZDA JAZADA

Wow, just a wonderful collection. I agree with the earlier post that the entire set would make a great book

Is this true that all these buildings, still exist after going through so much devastation.
well its truely a good post.

There are no pictures to be seen on this page

the photos aren't loading on my computer. on my friend's are though.. why? i have flash java etc..

amazing... the community keep the buildings almost as it was in 1944

works for me ... u r do it wrong :D

not showing any pics too...(ffox 3.5)

Amazing, stumbled and bookmarked... agree with everybody else would make a great addition to a book

Really stunning how they have repair what would today be damage fit only for demolition. Btw, I recognise a lot of the places as landmarks in WWII first person shooter games.

What a great idea to put a set of pictures like that together.
Amazing to see the difference...but yet the same.

Amazing! Interesting to compare old with new pics.

A really interesting and worthwhile project. Its other great relevance, beyond that of the overshadowing war, is the patchiness of progress. Many of the grand buildings have been painstakingly repaired and restored, as have even the old German bunkers. But note how, in general, old trees and parks have disappeared and been replaced by bitumen and concrete pavements and rows of parked or waiting cars. And what happened to the statues of the saints in the old church? Note also that in many cases, rough textured buildings and stone walls whose charm and feeling of great time have been replaced by bland concrete or smoothed-over facades.

Where are the photos?

Yeah... it just says the title 204 times.

This must have taken an amazing amount of research to complete this project. Great job.

you should include photos of the empty field then to comapre with the thousands of tomb markers now. The real reminder what some gave.

It's amazing to see an average street, like the ones we know today, And see troops marching down them like something we would see in a movie.
Although I would never wish it upon anyone, there is a certain beauty to the archaic way of life during WWII. A world was torn apart, but unlike moderns war, the entire planet was involved in some way. You could almost say it was the last time the world was all fighting together for one reason or another. Just my opinion.

Great set, great work p Elie
I hope you understand that with putting them here they are getting the attention they deserve!!
Would be great if someone would do that for the region i am from (ypres) for WW1. Although i think that is a lot harder to accomplish.

Exceptional endeavor which obviously required significant time, effort and research... very thorough and well done! As noted in No 34, the website from which this originated is even better!

It's an amazing job. Truly makes me respect what those men did over there, to see the emotion in their faces is sureal. I can't wait to show my husband, who's a part of the Canadian Air Force. Thank you!

amazing collection

Amazing collection! A dunning contemporary document.

Why so many fakes?

Brilliant!
Was this one person's journey to stand in front of and retake one person's photo collection - or a group thing?
Loved the patisserie sign on the shop on the same corner.
No_ 40 needs to get away from his computer and 'step outside to see whats shakin in the real world"
more info would be good.

And None of these pic could be taken.. if the Soviet Red Army wasnt responsible for 9 of every 10 German soldier casualties.. Bless the USSR

Great Job Mr Elie.

Very nice ! I liked it.

A marvelous collection of photgraphs. I wonder what became of all the soldiers, Allied and German, shown in the pictures. May their lives have brought more joy than was possible at that time.

Thank you so much for making this available.

Emil Rechsteiner, Groton MA, USA September 6, 2009

What is truly amazing is how the French rebuilt and preserved their priceless history, while here in the USA, we'd have razed those old buildings and put up a McDonalds. Here, here, great compilation of photos.

Caz

Absolutely brilliant pictures, can't wait to go back to Normandy next summer.

These are amazing! but i wish they we're side by side comparison or in a book that'ld be cool too.

I'm very proud to be a Canadian looking at these photos.a

Amazing pictures.
:)

Added to the collections of www.worthpics.com

These are wonderful! They should be in school curriculums.
I found a bakery (boulanger) that's still a bakery today!!!
How great that they rebuilt and didn't redesign!!
Thanks